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Motivated by the surface of topological insulators, the Dirac anomaly's discontinuous dependence on sign of the mass, $m/|m|$, is investigated on closed topologies when mass terms are weak or only partially cover the surface. It is found…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-12-11 Alexander Selem

The electromagnetic scattering properties of topological insulator (TI) spheres are systematically studied in this paper. Unconventional backward scattering caused by the topological magneto-electric (TME) effect of TIs are found in both…

Optics · Physics 2017-03-16 Lixin Ge , Dezhuan Han , Jian Zi

We determine the nature of the magnetic order on the surface of a topological insulator (TI) which develops due to hexagonal warping and the resulting Fermi surface (FS) nesting in the presence of a repulsive Hubbard interaction. For this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-08 Daniel Mendler , Panagiotis Kotetes , Gerd Schön

The relativistic Dirac equation covers the fundamentals of electronic phenomena in solids and as such it effectively describes the electronic states of the topological insulators like Bi$_2$Se$_3$ and Bi$_2$Te$_3$. Topological insulators…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-11-24 Hiroki Isobe , Naoto Nagaosa

Spontaneous edge currents are known to occur in systems of two space dimensions in a strong magnetic field. The latter creates chirality and determines the direction of the currents. Here we show that an analogous effect occurs in a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael J. Gruber , Marianne Leitner

Gapless surface states that are protected by time reversal symmetry and charge conservation are among the manifestations of 3D topological insulators. In this work we study how electron-electron interaction may lead to spontaneous breaking…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-06-07 Yuval Baum , Ady Stern

The topological insulator/ferromagnetic metal (TI/FMM) bilayer thin films emerged as promising topological surface state-based spintronic devices, most notably in their efficiency of current-induced spin torque. Using a cubic lattice model,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-30 Wei Chen

Topological superconductivity has attracted intensive interest for its ability of hosting Majorana zero mode and implementing in topological quantum computations. Based on the first-principles calculations and the analysis of the effective…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-10 Wenjun Liu , Aiyun Luo , Guyue Zhong , Jinyu Zou , Gang Xu

We investigate theoretically the electromagnon on the surfaces of the magnetic topological insulator thin films. It is found that when the magnetic asymmetry between the top and bottom surfaces is there, the ferromagnetic resonance is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Yusuke Hama , Naoto Nagaosa

We study topological crystalline insulators doped with magnetic impurities, in which ferromagnetism at the surface lowers the electronic energy by spontaneous breaking of a crystalline symmetry. The number of energetically equivalent ground…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-12-06 Sahinur Reja , H. A. Fertig , L. Brey , Shixiong Zhang

We study the scattering of edge states of 2D topological insulator (TI) in the uniform external magnetic field due to edge imperfections, common in realistic 2D TI samples. The external magnetic field breaks time reversal (TR) symmetry,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-22 A. S. Dotdaev , Ya. I. Rodionov , A. V. Rozhkov , P. D. Grigoriev

Exploration of novel electromagnetic phenomena is a subject of great interest in topological quantum materials. One of the unprecedented effects to be experimentally verified is topological magnetoelectric (TME) effect originating from an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-10 M. Mogi , M. Kawamura , A. Tsukazaki , R. Yoshimi , K. S. Takahashi , M. Kawasaki , Y. Tokura

We return to further examination of the need for the existence of magnetic monopoles based on the decades old derivation [Sherman Frankel, Amer. Jour. of Physics, 44, 7, 683-6 1976], of both the monopole-charge force, vec(F) = eg(vec(r) *…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Frankel

We study coherent optics in topological insulator surface states with broken time-reversal symmetry and develop a theory for the dynamical Hall effect driven by intense electromagnetic field. The influence of optical Stark effect enters as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-28 Wang-Kong Tse

Chiral surface states in topological insulators are robust against interactions, non-magnetic disorder and localization, yet topology does not yield protection in transport. This work presents a theory of interacting topological insulators…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 Dimitrie Culcer

Topological insulators are a recently discovered class of materials with fascinating properties: While the inside of the solid is insulating, fundamental symmetry considerations require the surfaces to be metallic. The metallic surface…

The optical conductivity for the surface excitations for a Topological Insulator as a function of the chemical potential and disorder is considered. Due to the time reversal symmetry the chiral metallic surface states are protected against…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-19 D. Schmeltzer , K. Ziegler

Three-dimensional topological insulators have protected Dirac-cone surface states. In this paper we propose magnetic field induced topological insulator thin film ordered states in which coherence is established spontaneously between top…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-29 Dagim Tilahun , Byounghak Lee , E. M. Hankiewicz , A. H. MacDonald

We report semiconductor to metal-like crossover in temperature dependence of resistivity ($\rho$) due to the switching of charge transport from bulk to surface channel in three-dimensional topological insulator…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-07-10 Prithwish Dutta , Arnab Pariari , Prabhat Mandal

The kinetic magnetoelectric effect is an orbital analogue of the Edelstein effect and offers an additional degree of freedom to control magnetisation via the charge current. Here we theoretically propose a gigantic kinetic magnetoelectric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-22 Ken Osumi , Tiantian Zhang , Shuichi Murakami